Click here for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ 2010 emergency resolution in support of pension and retirement security reform:

Canada Without Poverty and the CWP Advocacy Network shall work with Canadian labour (particularly within the context of Dignity for All: The Campaign for a Poverty-free Canada) to help advance public and political support for pension and retirement security reform. Under international human rights law to which Canada is signatory, everyone has the right to “social security” and an “adequate standard of living.” Government has a duty to ensure such economic and social rights are honoured and upheld. Government must therefore work with business and civil society to construct a sustainable system of retirement security so that these rights – and the related right of “security of the person” (per international law and Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) – are made real.